RFR: 8204610: Compiler confused by parenthesized "this" in final fields assignments

Liam Miller-Cushon cushon at google.com
Mon Jun 11 19:56:50 UTC 2018


Where does qualified 'this' fit in here (e.g. `TypeName.this.x = 1`)?
Should it be handled similarly?

Related: JDK-8193904

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:43 PM Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>
wrote:

> A finger-in-the-air guess the impact of this source-incompatible change:
> 1/4 the impact of banning `_` as a variable name.
>

I'd be happy to help measure the impact of that change once there's a
prototype.
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